Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is very little news from the front due to a web of official secrecy which now enshrouds the battle area. Vague rumors have reached this neutral ground about a new instrument of war, known as the "one-armed bandit" which has a deadly effect, especially in knocking off Indians' heads...
...policy was along predicted lines (TIME, Aug. 23). Trippe's thesis: Unless the U.S. decides to set up a single "chosen instrument" to compete with the Government-backed monopolies of the rest of the world, the world will outfly the U.S.* What broke new ground in his speech was a refinement of this attitude. The chosen instrument, he said, should be "a community company-owned and controlled, not by any one aviation interest, but by all American transportation interests able to contribute, under an organization plan approved by the Government." Further, it should "not consider the position...
...that Pan Am has been trying to freeze out other airlines by making a separate postwar peace with the railroads-which are now barred by law from flying. But Trippe's second point seemed to undercut suspicions about his first, for he had now said that the chosen instrument should be much bigger than...
...compass-oldest known navigating instrument-has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a warrior's spear. The new "gyro flux gate" compass, designed especially for aircraft, is already at work guiding United Nations flyers unerringly to their targets...
...Different Matter. The gyro flux gate compass, on which Bendix engineers worked seven years, is based on an entirely different principle. Exactly how it works is still a military secret (at least one of the instruments has fallen into Axis hands, but its inventors believe it will take Axis scientists years to figure it out). Its basic parts are a triangular set of coils and a gyroscope. The function of the gyroscope (which spins at 10,000 revolutions a minute) is simply to keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace...